✔ RE Patch
✔ Treaty Patch
China is a pretty fascinating civilization with unique army and powerful economy
[spoiler=RE Patch]BOOM
Age I
Gather crates. Make a village and market. Get Water Wheel (first wood upgrade) and then keep 8-9 villagers on food while rest to wood/coin to get first mining/food/civil servants market upgrades. New villagers go to wood/coin as needed.
Now, gather 150 extra coin, then move all coin villagers to wood to get 200 wood for consulate and 150 wood for Livestock faster fattening upgrade and another village. Ally with Russia. New vills to food.
Once consulate and 2nd village are made, shift all villagers to food EXCEPT 2 VILLAGERS WHO YOU WILL KEEP ON WOOD TILL AGE 3.
First card= Water Buffalo Ranching. Start making Buffaloes, 5/village. Be careful to not make more buffaloes than your village capacity.
Age up with Summer Palace.
Second card= Faster livestock fattening. Third card= 300% faster livestock gather rate.While aging, shift about half villagers to coin for faster Age III time.
[Note: If you want to get 20 vill overpop from AGE V faster than start making cows in AGE III and not in AGE I]
Age II
Gather 400 food age up bonus crates.
Get second Age II market upgrades wood/food/coin.
By now your Buffaloes should be fattened. Use food vills to eat Buffaloes and remember to replace each buffalo as soon as it is killed.
Once you hit 1000 coin/1200 food, age up (White Pagoda). While aging, get extra 150 coin/food to get age II all resource faster gather upgrade then shift most villagers to wood.
Age III
Make 2 more TC's. Set gather point to food/coin.
Gather 400 extra wood to get 2 more villages up so you can train all 20 Buffaloes.
Allocate villagers so that you can get 1200 coin/2000 food ASAP.
Send Acupuncture and Refrigeration cards.
Age up with Porcelain Tower.
Age IV
Things are gonna get a bit spicy here, as you'll have to manage buffaloes as well as make walls and buildings.
Set Porcelain tower to coin. Get factory from Consulate when you get 800 export and upgrade coin production.
Keep most villagers on food, so you can keep making villagers and Buffaloes.
Now you should send villagers to wood too. Get last wood upgrade.Make more villages/rice paddy's and upgrade their food when you get the enough wood.
Manage villagers so that you can get 4000 coin/4000 food by the time you get 86-87 villagers out.
Age up with Temple of Heaven wonder with 1 villager when you reach 86 villagers.
Ally with Germans and DONT FORGET TO GET THEIR UPGRADES AND SHIFT TO FRENCH.
While age up, keep most villagers on wood and about 10 on coin for Imperial upgrades.
Make the last 2 villages and train 5 sheep on each. Spam rice paddy around villages.
Shipments= Exotic hardwood/ Rice paddy food gather rate upgrades.
Age V
WARNING: Avoid having idle time during age V, since you now have to manage 119 villagers.
Get Imperial upgrades for wood and food.
Once rice paddy's are upgraded (with rice paddy cards for food all sent) , put villagers to rice paddy's. Keep about 50-60 on food and rest to wood.
Make wall and war academies, and upgrade units. Switch about 10-20 villagers to coin for unit upgrades, and switch Factory and Porcelain tower to wood.
Now its all about your livestocking skills which will determine your final score at 40.
Have full army out and then get Sentries and ship 15 Gendarmes from Consulate for overpop., then switch to British allies (for hp boost) or German allies (for cheaper armies).
CARD ORDER
Water Buffalo Ranching > Stockyards > Furring mills > Acupuncture> Refrigeration > Exotic hardwood > >Confucius' Gift > Sustainable Agriculture >Food Silos> Banner School > Anything you wish
NOTE
As China is a really complex but economically-powerful civ, thanks to the 119 villagers and a large variety of banner armies, you'll have to manage resource distribution to according to your military needs. Old Han Army is your most powerful unit combo because of Old Han Reforms card and they cost food and wood.
Your main army should be Old Han army mixed with either Standard Army or Forbidden Army + Hand mortars/Flying Crows. Don't forget your Monk, who can produce an extra 10 Disciples army and the infinite Shaolin shipment, which helps tremendously versus cavalry. Do not forget about consulate armies. Use your export resource!
Since wood is limited, when you start running low on wood, use Standard Army as your main military body. You should be getting enough wood from wonder and factory for making artillery. Make sure you don't overspam Old Han Army because doing so will leave you running so low on wood, you won't be able to make forward walls/bases and artillery. So its better to only use Old Han Army for the first few minutes. Cavalry is your biggest weakness. Heavy Cavalry e.g Lancers, Gendarmes practically eat up Chinese infantry. So you should counter cavalry with your own cavalry and the abstract infantry from Monk and shipment. Never use Keshik, as it costs wood and barely does damage to cavalry before dying.
Watch Chinese Boom Guide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTfWgAAj-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3EjV90QTmY[/spoiler]